Here’s what I put up on the social networks:
🌻Happy Ninth Birthday, Susanna!
🌻You are our feisty middle child, so eager to join the family that the doctor almost dropped you at birth! Life lesson: never doubt a mom having her third baby when she tells you the baby is coming NOW.
🌻You have powerful emotions and a strong will. I will never worry about you succumbing to peer pressure, and I respect your low tolerance for any sort of bloviating. You are creative, silly, and fearless. I love sharing adventure books with you–my favorite Susie quote is “All good books have a cave in them.” Well, you do love Anne of Green Gables, so maybe we should say almost all good books have caves.😉
🌻We love our Susie Q!🌻
So yeah, this birthday felt odd. Derek pointed out that I shouldn’t say we’re quarantining, since we’re not sick ourselves and actually just sheltering at home, but it sounds more dramatic to say we had a birthday celebration under quarantine. We couldn’t go anywhere or do anything, but the Skeens drove over after dinner and sang Happy Birthday to Susie from their van! It was so good to see their faces, and we may do some drive-by greetings to other friends just to get out of the house one of these days. While we’d been planning on this being a big birthday party year, I think Q still had a lot of fun.
You will just have to throw her an extra big turning 10 birthday party next year! 🙂